ill question until more conclusive evidence is forthcoming. By late 

 May 1830 a second locomotive had been completed. ^ This model, 

 first exhibited in Cincinnati, is described in the following newspaper 

 article: 



The Messrs. Shield of this place, who some time since invented and 

 built for Mr. Grover, of Lexington, Kentucky, a locomotive engine, 

 called the Western Star, have made some very ingenious and important 

 improvements on that plan, which can be seen exemplified in the 

 Cincinnati, a new railroad engine and car, which they have recently 

 constructed, and which now is exhibiting at the Amphitheater in this 

 city. We are assured that the engine is capable of overcoming an eleva- 

 tion of eighty or ninety feet in the mile with the greatest ease, very 

 little difference being perceptible between the level and the above- 

 mentioned elevation, as to speed. The principal improvements in engine 

 consist of compactness and the application of power direct to the carriage, 

 while the arrangement of the boiler is supposed to present a greater 

 surface of water to the action of caloric than any other boiler heretofore 

 constructed for a like purpose, consequently a greater quantity of steam 

 must be generated in a given time from the same quantity of fuel. 



The boiler itself is unique, and can not fail to interest the scientific and 

 learned. The movement of the machine on the railway is admirable, 

 and we should suppose that the engine, with the car attached carrying 

 four persons, would perform the distance of from eight to sixteen miles 

 per hour, at pleasure ; and we have been assured by competent judges 

 that when placed on a straight and level rail, it would perform with 

 ease thirty miles an hour, carrying from four to eight persons. The 

 workmanship of the whole is admirably finished, and is very creditable 

 to Mr. Shield and the very ingenious young mechanic, his son. We 

 understand that Mr. Shield intends very shortly to visit Baltimore and 

 the Eastern cities with his improvement, so that the machine will re- 

 main here but a short time, and we can not but recommend an early 

 and general attendance at the Amphitheater to witness this very fine 

 specimen of the mechanical arts.*^ 



No precise description has been found, but several facts of some 

 assistance in picturing the engine have been culled from the numer- 



5 Sometime between 1830 and 1832 Shield buih a full-size locomotive which was 

 sold to the Pontchartrain Railroad in Louisiana for Si, 000. The engine was a 

 failure, but was retained for use as a stationary power plant at the railroad's repair 

 shop. 



6 In Memoriam, p. 248. 



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